Re: [asa] Re: "day" and "yom"

Sorry - I missed somethin' there.
Shadows is nice language!
And...as I reread my post, it sounded like I thought emu's were extinct.
Actually, I was just referring to their notoriously short memories. In
the words of one zoo caretaker, "Every day is a new day to an emu!".

JimA [Friend of ASA]
   
gordon brown wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Jim Armstrong wrote:
>
>> Re: "To the Hebrews a day was the time between one sunset and the next
>> (not normally exactly 24 hours)"
>>
>> I'm not a Hebrew scholar, but I've certainly heard and read the opinions
>> of some, and unless my memory has gone the way of the emu, even the
>> Hebrew word itself in the time -- "yom" -- had virtually the same range
>> of meanings as our English useage of "day", i.e., daylight, 24 hour
>> period, a vague time (back in the day), a particular time period (...in
>> the day of King...), a particular year identified by an event, for
>> example (on the day of the Twin Towers disaster). [I'm not sure the
>> examples are perfect!] The arguments go on and on based on the
>> interpretation of the context and other considerations, and of course,
>> everyone is quite certain of their interpretation. But the bottom
>> line is
>> that the word itself does not convey which of the meanings is intended.
>> That is not surprising in a language with relatively small vocabulary
>> (some 8,700 words, I read - compared with perhaps a half million in our
>> own). My wife has been studying Biblical Hebrew for about 4 years now,
>> and even with the context, the meanings can be insufficiently
>> specific to
>> narrow the translation to a single meaning. Besides, single meanings are
>> not the Torah way - layers of meaning are, and the principal message
>> seldom lies in the direct reading. [This according to a friend and
>> teacher who is a product of the demanding Yeshiva in Jerusalem, as well
>> as a scribe for several years.]
>>
>> JimA [Friend of ASA]
>>
>
> I agree, but I would add that the days of the Jewish calendar
> symbolize the days of creation in Genesis. This does not mean that
> they are exact replicas any more than other earthly entities such as
> the tabernacle are
> exact replicas of the heavenly ones that they symbolize. Hebrews 8 refers
> to a shadow of heavenly things, and I would suggest that our days are
> mere shadows of the days of Genesis 1:1 to 2:3.
>
> Gordon Brown (ASA member)
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